ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,993, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Intelligent power saving for network device status indicators" was invented by Kannan Karuppiah (Fremont, Calif.), Senthil Kumar Ganesan (San Ramon, Calif.) and Udhaya Chandran Shanmugam (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards intelligently controlling the power consumed by light emitting diodes (LEDs) of network devices, such as present in a datacenter. An internal device agent, application and/or centralized monitoring system can determine when to activate and deactivate LEDs, such as to act...